Longtime Stratford resident William O’Brien Jr. served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was deployed to Vietnam during the Tet ...

He spent the next several months serving aboard the USS Yorktown and was on the ship when it recovered the crew of Apollo 8 after its successful splashdown. “That was probably the most ...

The NOAA's exploration team explored the ship's hangar deck and discovered a mural, titled "A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown," painted on the wall of one of the ship's elevator shafts.

View of the Ford automobile in the hangar of the USS Yorktown. (NOAA Ocean Exploration via SWNS) By Dean Murray A deep-sea expedition of a sunken WWII battleship has found a mysterious car on board.

An ocean mapping expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explored the resting site of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) and found that a ...

An ocean mapping expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explored the resting site of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) and found that a mural ...

The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...

It was the first time since the USS Yorktown’s sinking in World War II that anyone had seen the entire 12-foot-high mural depicting its global cruises, historians and maritime archaeologists ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber fell to the seafloor trapped inside the USS Yorktown, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of Midway. The heavily damaged aircraft is ...